In Angola, the Blood Diamond Trade Goes On

The Kimberley Process was supposed to put an end to the violent blood-diamond trade. But in Angola's diamond heartland, peasant miners are still being exploited. WSJ's Michael Allen reports.

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I ... in the Angolan poppy and Komodo ... as a timing miners' strikes it rich ... moves to Portugal ... Pfizer Mercedes Benz is the night away with beautiful women ... it's a far cry from the harsh reality of the miners life ... there's little agriculture in this region in almost no jobs outside of the mining sector ... year to cool a diamond mine in north eastern Angola ... the scene unfolds it brings to mind Dante's Inferno ... perhaps five hundred young men who were convinced he can keep behavior ... the miners known as guiding Pintos in Portuguese Kebede entry year now with little more than sledge Hammers and showgirls ... the PUC and six months more to go before the end of the new gravel they hope will contain diamonds ... in the mean time ... the ad ... come on ... back then ... the ... company beat them out on because that feeling ... that there'd be tacked on ... during the dark days of Angola's long civil war ... bigger cities these were pressed into service by rebel soldiers fighting to defeat the Soviet backed government ... the rebels created gyms for weapons in the term play diamonds ... in two thousand to the world climbing community set up a certification system aimed at stopping the trade in blood diamonds ... get worked ... up to a point ... a country such as Angola has snuffed out the rebel movements ... that critics say they're still many human rights abuses committed during the diamond mining process ... only now the perpetrators are often government forces themselves ... once they hit the ground ... and the Lord gave no warning ... then to point it will ... expel them ... and gave me the ... wind ... it was rich enough to grapple with the family ... the guy you know still have a government licence to what they're doing is technically illegal ... but there are plenty of government sanctioned diamond buyers around who are happy to purchase what they bring in ... the buyers often support the illegal lenders financially until they hit pay dirt ... at the same time the miners at the mercy of soldiers and police officers whopping demand bribes to allow them to work not long ago army patrol swept through the colon raft of several of the miners ... so ... I can detect it to me I'll show the guys like an okay ... this meant it ... one could mainland ... they just bought ... that's the view of ... the army said it was looking to its daily legal figures from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo ... the most to the guiding Pintos hearing Dolan ... said ... DeRosa Sisters two sons were killed over diamonds ... in September sold the strategic group of guiding analysts at ending the legal mind ... when they refuse to leave she says the soldiers came in part of the mind in forty five men were buried alive ... including a twenty one year-old son ... her older son died February at the hands of private security guards in a dispute over bribes ... the stock ... they kill the little and when I got that they didn't do anything for me he didn't give me anything ... they didn't even help me get adjusted to the kitchen or give me any support ... even the body disappeared ... that's how I felt how can that be my two sons that just killed them at ... all and the the the ... military officials did not respond to requests for comment ... Angola's secretary Steve for human rights Antonio Pinto been they ... acknowledge that such abuses happened ... instead it is urgent to cultivate a culture of human rights ... circumstances are much better Bifulco about an hour's drive from the mine ... the mighty streets are lined with competing buying houses each trade outdo the other was going to try and cousins might have a diamond to sell ... there isn't much evidence that the riches from the diamond trade of trickle down ... has been little investment here ... the ... the the ... what was once the only decent hotel in penalizes and in ... one recent evening ... a group of women gathered in front of a practice him as the ... still determined to continue ... it's back breaking labor is likely the only choice the winning ... for The Wall Street Journal this is